Cabrera, Crystal Mae N.

Grade 7
Macababbad, Prim John
Manguba, Maryanne M.
Grammar Quarter 4

Learning Competencies:

Grammar: Formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions

Week 7 Day 3 Topic: WH-QUESTIONS Duration of Session:

50 minutes
“The Happiest Boy in the World” by
NVM Gonzales

Learning At the end of the lesson, the students must be able to:
Objectives
Knowledge Answer the WH-Questions in the story “The Happiest Boy in the
World” by NVM Gonzales

Skills Construct who, what, when, where, why, and how questions

Attitudes Cite the importance of identifying WH-Questions in a story

Resources Needed Reference:

Wh- questions. Basic English Speaking. (2020, April 17). Retrieved
May 22, 2022, from https://basicenglishspeaking.com/wh-
questions/

Castillo, S. P. (n.d.). Happiest boy in the World by NVM Gonzalez.

Echoes of Childhood Stories. Retrieved May 22, 2022, from
https://stories-in-the-sand.blogspot.com/2007/06/happiest-boy-in-
world-by-nvm-gonzalez.html

Resources:
Laptop, PowerPoint presentation, Bamboozle, YouTube

Elements of the Plan Methodology

Priming Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

(2 minutes) Good morning, everyone! How are

you today?
We are doing good, Ma’am.
Oh, I am happy to hear that. Before
we officially start, I would like to
remind you to keep your microphone
muted, only unmute yourself when
you are called. Be visible also as we
go through our lesson.

But first of all, let us ask the presence

of the Lord to be with us. Let us pray.

▪ Prayer ▪ Prayer

Once again, a very pleasant morning

to everyone. Please Allow me to
check your attendance.
 ▪ Checking of Attendance

Wow, I am glad to see that you are all

fine and healthy today.

We are your teachers. I am your

teacher Crystal, I am your teacher
Prim, and I am your teacher
Maryanne.

Are you now excited for our lesson?

Yes, ma’am.
Let us first play a game!
Motivation This activity is titled “CHOOSE ME
AND IDENTIFY ME”
(5 minutes)
As the title suggests, you will choose a
number and answer the question being
asked. We have here 12 tiles and you
will choose a tile, behind those tiles are
questions you will answer.

Do you understand class? Yes, ma’am.

Do you have any clarifications? None, ma’am.

Okay, I think you are all set. Let’s

start…

Wow what a fun way to start our

lesson, let’s keep going!

Presentation of the I think you are all set to learn our

Lesson lesson for today.

(2 minutes) In this lesson, I expect you to:

• Answer the WH-Questions in

the story “The Happiest Boy in
the World”
• Construct who, what, when,
where, why, and how questions
• Cite the importance of
identifying WH-Questions in a
story

As we dig deeper on the literary piece,

I want you to ponder on this question:

Motive Question: “What is the

significance or importance of
identifying WH-Questions in
understanding a story”?
 You will answer this, once we are done
discussing about the story.

Activity 1 Let’s have another activity which is

Unlocking Vocabulary. This is a group
(5 minutes) activity. Since you are 37 in class there
shall be 5 groups with 6 members and
1 group with 7 members. Here are the
groupings which we based on from
your surnames. Any members of the
group can answer just unmute yourself
if you wish to.

This is a gibberish type of activity and

meaning is also given to provide you
clues.

Ready class?
(Yes ma’am)
This is “GUESS ME”

• (HANDCORD) - A person
who rents land, a building, or
an apartment to a renter.
(Landlord, ma’am)
• (TINONE) - a person who
occupies land or property
rented from a landlord. (Try ma’am, is it tenant?)

• (ANDACAUSETOMB) - not
familiar or usual; out of the
ordinary. (Unaccustomed ma’am)

• (ISHTHUMBBALL) - trip or
momentarily lose one's balance
(That would be stumble
• (EGGSOULTAYSHOWN) - a ma’am)
feeling or state of extreme
happiness (Exaltation ma’am)

Congratulations everyone, you got it

all correct.

Give yourselves a virtual applause. Student selects the clap

reaction button..
-correct answer-
Landlord
Tenant
Unaccustomed
Exaltation
Analysis The words you just unlocked are in the
story “The Happiest Boy in the
(15 minutes) World”, which you will watch later on.
But before that take a look at these
WH-questions, their usage and
examples.
Firstly, Wh-questions are certain types
of questions we ask to get information
about different things and are used
frequently every day at home and in
the classroom

Moving on, here are the rules in

formulating WH-questions.

I. How to form WH-questions?

1. with an auxiliary
Wh-word + auxiliary + subject + main
verb …?

Auxiliary verbs are helping verbs (not

main verbs).
Common auxiliary verbs include be,
do, have. Others are will, shall, would,
can, could, must, should, may, might,
etc.
- What do you do for a living?
- Why should we read books?
- When is she coming?

2. without any auxiliary

(when WH-words replace subjects
already)
Wh-word + main verb …?

- What happened to Peter?

- Who won the game?
- Who gave you this present?

Do you have any question regarding

the rules? If none, here are the question
words with their usage and examples:

Question words:
• What - Used to ask about
things
Examples: - What are you doing?
- What do you think about the movie?

Any other example class? You can

raise your hand. Student 1 states her
example.
Good job… (what…)

• When- Used to ask about time

Examples: - When will the meeting
start?
- When are you leaving?

Anyone from you would like to try Student 2 states her

giving another example? example.
That is correct. (when…)

• Where- used to ask about

places
Examples- Where’s my bag?
- Where do you live?

I believe, in your mind, you already

formulated your question. Who wants
to try?

Okay, someone raised their hand

Student 3 raised hand
virtually. Yes?
virtually (where…)
Very good.

• Who- Used to ask about people

Or an action a person did.
Examples: Who do you love the most
in your family?
- Who told you that story?
- who did you call?

Okay, someone raised their hand

virtually again. Yes? Student 4 raised hand
virtually (who…)
Very good

• Why- Used to ask about

reasons/ causes
Examples: Why did it happen? I didn’t
understand.
- Why is he crying?

Any other example class? Student 5 raised hand

virtually (why…)
Good job…

• How- Used to ask about

manner/ process
Examples: How can you explain this
problem? Please tell us.
- How can you get here?

Anyone from you would like to try

giving another example? Student 6 states her
example.
(how…)
That is correct.

Very good, everyone I think you all

understood the lesson. And to
incorporate what have you learned,
watch this video of the story “The
Happiest Boy in the World”

(Teacher plays the video)

 (Students watch the video)

Activity 2 In connection, we will use that story in

our lesson. I hope that you can
(5 minutes) understand the story so that you can
answer these following questions: Student answers:
1. In the story “The Happiest Boy
in the World,” who is the letter The letter sender is Julio,
writer? the father of Jose.
2. What was the reason why the
father wrote the letter to his
Compadre?
He wanted his son to study
and was hoping that his
compadre can take him.
3. Where does the family live?
The family in the story
lives in Barok.
4. When will Jose go to school
according to his Father? Julio is expected to go to
school in June.
5. Why was Jose happy? Jose was happy because he
found out what was in the
letter and though it was
hard to understand he was
able to get the message that
his father wants him to
start school
6. How did Jose find out what is
in the letter? It is because of his
curiosity, he stopped his
carabao under a shady tree
by the roadside and
Very good everyone. You really secretly read the letter.
watched the video and answered
all the questions. And because of
that you can elicit information and
get the details that are being asked.
Remember that through WH-
Questions we can understand the
story better and quickly.

Abstraction You already understood the Story

“The Happiest Boy in the World and
(3 minutes)
so with WH-Questions. it’s time for
you to answer our motive question,

Motive Question;
 “What is the significance or
importance of identifying WH-
Questions”?

Anyone from the class?

Ma’am, the significance of
identifying WH-Questions
is we are able to get
information about different
things.
Indeed. WH-Questions serve as a tool
to help you to identify the information
from each part of a story. Through
WH-Questions you can understand
better and quickly the story.

Application Now, we are going to simulate your

lesson learned into real-life situation. I
(5 minutes) will give the last activity. You will do
this with the same group you had from
our previous activity.

Let me present to you the scoring

rubric for this activity.

(Teacher presents the scoring rubric)

On each of the given issues/topic,

construct the WH-Questions. This is

“ASK IT OUT’’ Group 1 and 2 will

be constructing questions under
Christmas, group 3 and 4 is under
Covid-19, group 5 and 6 is under
election.

Your 5 minutes starts now.

(WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE,

WHY, AND HOW)

• Christmas
• Covid-19
• Election
Presentation of Outputs Be ready to present your outputs. You
will be graded using the given rubric.
(4 minutes)
Let me call the first group. Each group presents their
outputs
Evaluation Select the appropriate WH-Question.
Put your answer in the box provided.
(3 minutes)
“COMPLETE ME”
 (WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE,
WHY, AND HOW)

1. is the day you were

born? 1. When
2. How
3. What
2. can you avoid
4. When
getting infected with the
5. Where
COVID-19?
6. When
7. Who
3. are the precautions 8. What
to stay safe during the 9. Why
pandemic? 10. What
4. I am already here,
will you be here?

5. Help me please. I was robbed.

can I find the
nearest police station?

6. can we say we have

done enough?

7. left this cellphone in

the gymnasium?

8. does it feel like to be

loved?

9. We already broke up,

can’t you understand it?

10. are the advantages

and disadvantages of
technology?
Agreement Follow up: Assignment

(1 minute) We are down with your last task for

today.

Direction: Watch the story titled “THE

MAGIC POT STORY” and formulate
WH-Questions to further deepen your
understanding and broaden your
knowledge of the topic being
discussed.

Reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K
HzJVnY2egA&t=2s
 Advance:

Research and have an advance reading

on Statements of Fact and Opinion.

What a nice way to end our lessons. It

was very engaging and interesting
discussion. I hope that you all learned
something. Goodbye everyone.
Goodbye Teacher!

SCORING RUBRIC

CRITERIA (EXCELLENT) (GOOD) (POOR)

5 3 1

Relevance to the topic The wh-question word The wh-question The wh-questions
are use appropriately are use are used incorrectly
and correctly and is appropriately but and therefore not
showing excellence in with minor errors showing
understanding the topic. and is somehow understanding of
essential shows the topic.
understanding of
the topic.

Clarity and Grammar The question is clear The question is The question is
and free from clear and but with unclear and
grammatical errors. minor grammatical confusing due to
errors. grammatical errors.

Presentation Speak clearly. Eye Speak clearly with Speak unclearly

contact with audience only minimal sound and often mumbles
all the time. Body like um, ah, er, etc. distracting sound
language, gestures, and Eye contact with and so cannot be
facial expressions adds audience less than understood. Little
greatly to the message. 60% of the time, or no eye contact,
Body language, Body language,
gestures, and facial gestures, and facial
expressions expressions are
compliment lacking or
message. inappropriate